1. discursive - Adjective
2. discursive - Adjective Satellite
Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory.
Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. Georges Bataille
It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface. Edwin Abbott Abbott
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. A. R. Ammons
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. Alan Bennett
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Alan Bennett
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. Juan Goytisolo